Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 May 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála

9:30 am

Mr. Gerard Egan:

There is very little bad debt in respect of cost recovery for strategic infrastructure applications. Effectively, the costs would be any costs that are occasioned to the board for processing the case beyond the application fee that has already been paid and any observer fees that come in from the public. In that context, we do not have an issue with debt recovery for strategic infrastructure applications where we have expended more than the application fee that has been paid. On the very rare occasion, we would institute the normal debt recovery procedures that my colleague, Ms Killian, would implement in that respect. It is not a significant factor in financial terms as far as we are concerned.